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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOWARD A. POST, OF WVIOHITA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK W.WRIGHT, OF SAME PLAOE.

COMBINATION-WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,393, dated March27, 1894.

Application filed November 9, 1893- Serial No. 490,412. (No model.)Patented in England February 17, 1893, No. 3,552

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD A. Posr, a citi zen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombination- Wrenches, (for which I have obtained a patent in GreatBritain, No. 3,552, bearing date February 17, 1893,) of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings and the letters of reference thereon, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1, is a side view of thewrench; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the same on line 11 lookinghandleward; Fig. 3, a similar view on line 22; Fig. 4, a similar viewlooking from line 3-3 toward the wrench jaws, and Fig. 5, are viewsrepresenting a wheel-pipe-cutter for use in conjunction with the wrench.

This invention relates to certain improve ments in wrenches, andconsists in the novel structure of a combination wrench, for use as anut wrench, as a pipe wrench, as a vise and grip Wrench, and as a pipecutter, which im-' provements are fully set forth and explained in thefollowing specification and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings B, B are parallel bars; being formed of asingle bar, centrally flattened and bent at such flattened portion. A isa jaw fixed on the end of said bars. E is a second jawsleeved on saidbars, adjacent and facing jaw A. D is a yoke fixed on said bars adjacenttheir central portion, and serve, in conjunction with jaw A, to holdsaid bars a given distance apart. That portion of bars B. B. oppositeyoke D from jaw E forms the handle portion of the wrench.

F is a screw turned into a correspondingly threaded hole of the body ofjaw E, between and parallel with bars B. B. for the purpose of adjustingsaid jaw, and as a means of supporting said screw, it is made with areduced shank G which is placed through a hole of yoke D and through acentral hole of the flattened end portion of bars B. B. and has fixed onits projecting end, adjacent said flattened portion V, a knurled handpiece I, which is grasped and turned to operate the screw F,

and which hand piece is made with radial sockets J into which a levermaybe placed to turn the screw F when it is desired to grasp an objectvery firmly by the jaws. Jaw A is made with a cross-hollow L betweenbars B.

B., as shown, and jaw E is made with a similar, but toothed,cross-hollow K, facing hollow L. The jaw E is further made with a recessP in its face between bars B. B, and at the junction of hollow K, andwith a journal bearing R in the bottom of hollow K each side of recessP; which recess is for the placing therein of a pipe cutting Wheel, suchas is shown at M Fig. 5, resting the journals of said cutting wheel,respectively, in said bear ings R, as represented in Fig. 1, by dottedlines. Jaws A and E are made to extend each way from bars B, B, and atone end thereof they are made square, or parallel faced, and adapted toturn nuts and square and fiatsided objects, while the opposite ends orfaces of said jaws diverge from each other, from bar B outward, and oneof said jaws is made with cross-teeth on its face, as shown, thusadapting that side of the jaws for gripping and turning pipes. By reasonof the hollows L. and K. of the jaws,'sn1all pipes. may be placedbetween the jaws and between bars B. B. and gripped in said hollows.Also by placing small pipes between said jaws, in like manner, and byplacingthe pipe-cutting wheel M in its seat of jaw E, said cutter may bebrought, by operating screw F, to come against the pipe, when by turningthe wrench about the pipe, the wheel-cutter will be operated to out intothe pipe circumferentially and thus sever the pipe at that place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The wrench described consisting of the combination of the fixed jaw,the two parallel bars placed to form ways upon which a sliding jaw mayslide, and continuingbeyond said ways and forming a handle portion, thekeeper placed on and connecting said bars adjacent their handle portion,the sliding jaw sleeved on said bars between said keeper and the fixedjaw, and provided with a screwthreaded hole between and parallel withsaid bars the adjusting screw turned into said sliding jaw, andterminating within said jaw, and provided with the shank extendingthrough a hole of said keeper, parallel between the handle portion ofsaid bars and extending through a hole of the bent connecting portion ofsaid bars, and the knurled and recessed hand piece fixed on theextending end portion of said shank, substantially as set forth.

2. The wrench described consisting of the combination of the fixed jawprovided with one square face and with one diverging, or beveled, face,and with a cross-hollow between said faces, the two parallel bars fixedin said jaw, the keeper arranged connecting said bars, the handle formedby the continuation of said bars, the sliding jaw placed on said bars,and made with a screw-threaded hole through a portion of its bodyparallel with said bars; said hole terminating at the face of said jawin a recess; and provided with the toothed cross-hollow and the crosscutter- Wheel bearing between said barsand adjacent said recess, andwith one square face and one toothed diverging, or beveled face, the adjusting screwturned into and terminatingwithin the screw threaded hole ofsaid sliding jaw, and provided with the shank extending to the handleend, and the knurled and recessed hand piece fixed on the end portion ofsaid shank, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. v

3. In the wrench described the combination of the fixed jaw providedwith the cross-hollow, the bars fixed in said jaw, one at each side ofsaid hollow, the sliding jaw placed upon said bars and made with arecess in the face thereof between said bars, and provided with thetoothed cross hollow, and with the cross cutter-wheel bearing in theside walls of said recess, wherein said cross teeth are adapted to gripa pipe placed between said bars, and wherein said cross bearing isadapted to support a cutter-wheel for cutting oit pipes placed betweensaid bars, substantially as specified.

HOWARD A. POST.

Witnesses:

FRANK W. WRIGHT, WM. J. I-IUTCHINS.

